poke salads
poke salads is the plural of poke salad.
Meaning of poke salad
Noun (1)
poke salad (countable and uncountable, plural poke salads)
- A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly.
- The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.1921, T. S. Stribling, Birthright
- Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish.
- If some of ya'll never been down south too much / I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this / So that you'll understand what I'm talking about / Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods, and the fields / And it looks something like a turnip green / Everybody calls it polk salad1968, Tony Joe White, “Polk Salad Annie”, in Black and White
Noun (2)
poke salad (countable and uncountable, plural poke salads)
- A Hawaiian food made from diced raw fish, seasoning, diced fruit and vegetables, and sometimes rice.
- […] a wide range of creative seafood dishes (the Hawaiian-style poke salad with ahi tuna is a local favorite).2017, Fodor's Southern California: with Los Angeles, San Diego, the Central Coast & the Best Road Trips, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- poke bowl
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- Poke salads is the plural of poke salad.
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